THE FIGHT for citizens' right to know about the details of judges' wealth, appointments and complaints of misconduct against them reached the Supreme Court on Tuesday with a petition demanding implementation of the Right to Information Act in the judiciary.

I am a public servant," declared Chief Justice of India K G Balakrishanan settling the dust that had arisen over whether or not judges of the Supreme Court and high courts were public servants or not.

CORRUPTION is another challenge we face both in the government and the judiciary”: Prime Minister in his address to Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of High Courts (April 19, 2008)

TWO RECENT judgements of the Supreme Court on judicial activism and PILs have expectedly generated a spirited controversy within the Supreme Court and outside about the scope and limits of the court's jurisdiction in PILs and about judicial activism in general.

Contrary to what the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court recently said, the Right to Information Act does cover ‘constitutional authorities.’